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First Books

Poems and Essays:

Excerpt from Graffiti Calculus

First Books II

First Books III

Five Poems from Between Gods

Five Poems from How to Prove a Theory

Five Poems from Meanwhile

Five Poems from Meeting Bone Man

Five Poems from Shahid Reads His Own Palm

Five Poems from The Heart of a Comet

Five Poems from Umberto’s Night

Five Poems from When the World Breaks Open

Four Poems from Boyishly

Four Poems from Compass

Four Poems from Day of the Border Guards

Four Poems from Elegies for New York Avenue, plus an extra

Four Poems from Immigrant

Four Poems from In the Company of Spirits

Four Poems from La luz de la tormenta/The Light of the Storm

Four Poems from Loose Weather

Four Poems from Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown

Four Poems from Stronger Than Cleopatra

Four Poems from The Invented Child

Four Poems from The Silent Art

Four Poems from Words Facing East

Four Poems from Words We Might One Day Say

Red-Winged Blackbird at Gettysburg Field

Six Poems from A Language the Land is Inventing

Six Poems from The January Children

Two Poems from A Little Truth on Your Shirt

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